The End of Poverty

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Sachs, Jeffrey D. 저자(글)

Penguin Books · 2006년 02월 28일

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Jeffrey D. Sachsis director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is internationally renowned for his work as an economic advisor to governments around the world.
Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. From 2002 to 2006, he was Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty.
Jeffrey D. Sachsis director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is internationally renowned for his work as an economic advisor to governments around the world.
A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the worlds poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist "Time" calls one of the worlds 100 most influential people. Sachss aim is nothing less than to deliver a big picture of how societies emerge from poverty. To do so he takes readers in his footsteps, explaining his work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, while offering an integrated set of solutions for the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the poorest countries. Marrying passionate storytelling with rigorous analysis and a vision as pragmatic as it is fiercely moral, "The End of Poverty" is a truly indispensable work.
A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world? poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Timecalls one of the world? 100 most influential people. Sachs? aim is nothing less than to deliver a big picture of how societies emerge from poverty. To do so he takes readers in his footsteps, explaining his work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, while offering an integrated set of solutions for the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the poorest countries. Marrying passionate storytelling with rigorous analysis and a vision as pragmatic as it is fiercely moral, The End of Povertyis a truly indispensable work.
A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world? poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Timecalls one of the world? 100 most influential people. Sachs? aim is nothing less than to deliver a big picture of how societies emerge from poverty. To do so he takes readers in his footsteps, explaining his work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, while offering an integrated set of solutions for the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the poorest countries. Marrying passionate storytelling with rigorous analysis and a vision as pragmatic as it is fiercely moral, The End of Povertyis a truly indispensable work.
A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world?? poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Timecalls one of the world?? 100 most influential people. Sachs?? aim is nothing less than to deliver a big picture of how societies emerge from poverty. To do so he takes readers in his footsteps, explaining his work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, while offering an integrated set of solutions for the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the poorest countries. Marrying passionate storytelling with rigorous analysis and a vision as pragmatic as it is fiercely moral, The End of Povertyis a truly indispensable work.
Hailed by Time as one of the world's hundred most influential people, Jeffrey Sachs is renowned for his work around the globe advising economies in crisis. Now he distills twenty-five years of experience to offer a uniquely informed vision of the steps that can transform impoverished countries into prosperous ones. Marrying vivid storytelling with rigorous analysis, Sachs lays out a clear conceptual map of the world economy. Explaining his own work in Bolivia, Russia, India, China, and Africa, he offers an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that challenge the world's poorest countries. The End of Poverty is an indispensable work, with the power to remake the world. Book jacket.
He has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the world's poverty and misery. Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all. Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then, in a tour de force of elegance and compression, he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving, like a clinical internist, at a holistic diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, Sachs leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are-and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest. A work of profound moral and intellectual vision that grows out of unprecedented real-world experience, The End of Poverty is a road map to a safer, more prosperous future for the world.
"Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient... Outstanding." - The Economist "If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Paul Wolfowitz should read Jeffrey Sachs's compelling new book." - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek "Professor Sachs has provided a compelling blueprint for eliminating extreme poverty from the world by 2025. Sachs's analysis and proposals are suffused with all the practical experience of his twenty years in the field-working in dozens of countries across the globe to foster economic development and well-being." - George Soros, financier and philanthropist "Sachs proposes a many-pronged, needs-based attack...that is eminently practical and minimally pipe-dreamy...A solid, reasonable argument in which the dismal science offers a brightening prospect for the world''s poor." - Kirkus "This is an excellent, understandable book on a critical topic and should be required reading for students and participants in public policy as well as those who doubt the problem of world poverty can be solved." - Mary Whaley, Booklist
Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient... Outstanding. ( The Economist) If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it. ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) Paul Wolfowitz should read Jeffrey Sachs?? compelling new book. (Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek)
Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient... Outstanding. ("The Economist") If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it. ("Publishers Weekly," starred review) Paul Wolfowitz should read Jeffrey Sachss compelling new book. (Fareed Zakaria, "Newsweek")
Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient... Outstanding. (The Economist) If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it. (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Paul Wolfowitz should read Jeffrey Sachs? compelling new book. (Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek)
Book and man are brilliant, passionate, optimistic and impatient... Outstanding. (The Economist) If there is any one work to put extreme poverty back onto the global agenda, this is it. (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Paul Wolfowitz should read Jeffrey Sachs? compelling new book. (Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek)
Now in paperback comes the "New York Times" bestseller--a landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens.
He has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as "probably the most important economist in the world" and by Time as "the world's best-known economist." He has advised an extraordinary range of world leaders and international institutions on the full range of issues related to creating economic success and reducing the world's poverty and misery. Now, at last, he draws on his entire twenty-five-year body of experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all.Marrying vivid eyewitness storytelling to his laserlike analysis, Jeffrey Sachs sets the stage by drawing a vivid conceptual map of the world economy and the different categories into which countries fall. Then, in a tour de force of elegance and compression, he explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet in the manner that it has and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the cruel vortex of poverty. The groundwork laid, he explains his methods for arriving, like a clinical internist, at a holistic diagnosis of a country's situation and the options it faces. Rather than deliver a worldview to readers from on high, Sachs leads them along the learning path he himself followed, telling the remarkable stories of his own work in Bolivia, Poland, Russia, India, China, and Africa as a way to bring readers to a broad-based understanding of the array of issues countries can face and the way the issues interrelate. He concludes by drawing on everything he has learned to offer an integrated set of solutions to the interwoven economic, political, environmental, and social problems that most frequently hold societies back. In the end, he leaves readers with an understanding, not of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are-and why making the effort is a matter both of moral obligation and strategic self-interest. A work of profound moral and intellectual vision that grows out of unprecedented real-world experience, The End of Poverty is a road map to a safer, more prosperous future for the world.

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저자(글) Sachs, Jeffrey D.

<b>Jeffrey D. Sachs</b>

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. He is Special Adviser to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. He is internationally renowned for his work as economic adviser to governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Africa. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Harvard College in 1976, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1980.

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• Acknowledgments	p. vii
  Foreword	p. xii
  Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. xvi
  Introduction	p. 1
  A Global Family Portrait	p. 5
  The Spread of Economic Prosperity	p. 26
  Why Some Countries Fail to Thrive	p. 51
  Clinical Economics	p. 74
  Bolivia's High-Altitude Hyperinflation	p. 90
  Poland's Return to Europe	p. 109
  Reaping the Whirlwind: Russia's Struggle for Normalcy	p. 131
  China: Catching up after Half a Millennium	p. 148
  India's Market Reforms: The Triumph of Hope Over Fear	p. 170
  The Voiceless Dying: Africa and Disease	p. 188
  The Millennium, 9/11, and the United Nations	p. 210
  On-the-Ground Solutions for Ending Poverty	p. 226
  Making the Investments Needed to End Poverty	p. 244
  A Global Compact to End Poverty	p. 266
  Can the Rich Afford to Help the Poor?	p. 288
  Myths and Magic Bullets	p. 309
  Why we Should do it	p. 329
  Our Generation's Challenge	p. 347
  Works Cited	p. 369
  Further Reading	p. 372
  Notes	p. 376
  Index	p. 385
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ISBN	9780143036586 ( 0143036580 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 02월 28일
쪽수	464쪽
크기	137 * 213 * 30 mm / 340 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어